Adjustable bracket for supporting platforms.



No. 829,537. PATENTED AUG. 28, 1906.

O. MILLS. ADJUSTABLE BRACKET FOR SUPPORTING PLATFORMS.

APPLICATION H E 28,1905.

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CHARLES MILLS, OF WOOLSTON, NEAR CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND.

' ADJUSTABLE BRACKET FOR SUPPORTING PLATFORMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 28, 1906.

Application filed June 26,1906. Serial No. 207.164.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES MILLs, painter and glazier, a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 33 Ferr road, Woolston, near Christchurch, in the rovincial District of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Brackets of which the following is aspec cation.

This invention provides a bracket which ma be adjusted u on a window-sill to carry a pgtform upon w 'ch a person may be su ported while cleaning a window upon til outside or while performing other 0 erations, (siuch as painting the framework 0 the wins ow.

In my invention I employ an upper and lower. member pivoted to ether and staybars between the two mem ers. The upper member'has means at one end whereby it may be attached to a window-sill, and this member is supported in a horizontal position b the lowerniemberv and the stay-bars. A p atform is provided .u on the upper member and may have a ard to prevent the operator falling off. ach of the members and stay-bars is provided with holes for adjusting the bracket uponthe window-sill.

In the drawings accompanying this specification, Figure 1 is a side perspective elevation showing one way, and Fig. 2 a similar elevation showing another way, of using the bracket. Fig. 3 shows a bracket folded up when not in use.

The up er member comprises two parallel bars 1 and 2, united at their outer ends by a cross-bar 3 and at their inner ends by a crossrod 4. Upon the inner ends respectively of the bars 1 and 2 is formed an eye 5 and 6,

through which screw-threadedh-ooks 7 and 8 Y are passed and held in position by wing-nuts 9 and 10. A plurality of holes 11 and 12 are provided 1n the bars 1 and 2, through which bolts 13 I and 14 are passed, whereby the lower memher of the-bracket may be pivotedto the upper member. This lower member comprises parallel bars 15 and 16, united at their outer ends by a cross-bar 17 and provided with a plurality of holes 18 and 19. Stay-bars 20 and 21, one on each side of the bracket, are pivoted to the upper member by bolts 22 and 23 and to the lower-member, by bolts 24 and 25. A plurality of holes 26 and 27 are provided in the stay-bars 20 and 21,

for Supportin Platforms,

bead- 37 on the inside of a window and the nuts 9 and 10 are adjusted until the bars 1 and 2 are horizontal when resting u on the windowsill. The lower member 1st en adjusted upon the upper member until it rests upon the sill, as shown in Fi 1, or until 1t is vertical and resting against t e outslde of the building, as shown in Fig. 2. The stay-bars 20 and 21 are then'adjusted upon the upper member and the lower member to ma1nta1n the upper member securely in positlon.

What -I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

For the p ose indicated a bracket comprising in com ination' an upper member consisting of two parallel bars and an mtegral outer end piece, there being a plurality of holes in the arallel bars, a cross-rod umtm the inner ven s ofthe said bars, eyes integra with the said inner ends, screw-threaded hooks assing through the said eyes and adapted to engage a bead inside the WlIldOW, nuts upon the threaded ends of the hooks, a lower member consisting of two arallel bars and an integral outer end piece t ere bein a plurality of holes in the parallel bars, bo ts whereby the lower member is pivoted to the up er member stay-bars having a plurahty of holes, bolts pivoting the stay-bars at one end to the uppermember and at the lower end to the lower member, a platform anglebrackets secured to the lower side of the p atforrn bolts passing through the upper member and the brackets to secure the platform in position, and a vertical end piece to the platform, as set forth.

testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES MILLS. 

